Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-03-28
THE CASUAL OBSERVER.
Talks About the Young Woman and
Her Piano.

Her Piano.
from the New York Graphic
A great deal has been said as to the young
woman who is learning to play the piano,
but not enough in her praise. She has GER
tainly large patience. No mere man ever
had half as much. There is no hour for
rest or thought or writing that that young
woman doesn't intrude upon. She may re-
main idle for hours, but only in contempla-
ton of action. The man she persecutes has
habit of correspondence, and taking ad-
vantage of her silence he prepares to cele-
brate himself in that way. Selling his pen,
he puts it to paper in the pleasing conscious
ness that nothing can disturb him; and at
that critical second the young woman begins
she has been looking out for that very mo-
ment herself. And she always begins in the
same way and with the same exercise.
''Dear ST." commences the man with the
letter. "Tra-lala, r-r-r- attlet-e bang, boom,"
exclaims the young woman's piano; and then
ensue the Identical notes that have been agi-
tating the block for six months, including
the quaver in the beginning, and has finally
become SO irksome. Poising his dripping
pen in the air the man struggles to bring
back the idea that has been driven away
from him. Il was very glad" he begins,
smiling gladly at the sympathetic silence of
the young woman's piano, which has appa-
rently stopped in Difference to his temporary
eouragingly, 'I was very-very-veryg glad
boomr' Then follows the old, old exercise,
with pauses to recover lost notes, with an in
PRODUCTION of notes never before heard of;
with slch unearthly eccentricity in places as
must make the angels weep, and occasionally
with the bringing down upon the carpet of
the young woman's foot by way of Wagner
ian emphasis, it having been opened up to
her that she is making just much botch
of it as she has heretofore.
The air of 'sTit- Willow is at times mel
ancholy. Within it's musical folds is a deli
cious bit of burlesque that pleases at the
same time that it soothes. When, however,
you have heard "Tit- Willow" since the open
ing of the creation and have promise OF it
till the period of the large angel signifying
the judgment, it aggravates. 81 was very
glad to get your note" says the gentleman
of the correspondence; and thereupon the
young woman's piano says, ''Oh willow, tit
willow, tit-willow." sit recalled something
of old times, says the writer ooh willow,
tit-willow, tit-willow," says the musical in
strument with extreme sadness. Dashing
his pen against the adjoining woodwork, the
ink therein streaming from the wound thus
created, the man of the CORES pondence re-
marks with emphasis that he would he were
dead or something to that effect, and the ex.
clamation winds up with 'Tit-willow," quite
as if the music were made to accompany his
intolerable grief. When in desperation he
resumes, his words and the piano have tra-
la-la as if each were created to accompany
the other; and as he peruses with aching
brow the completed missive it runs along like
distracted combination of tra-la Ia, rattle
te-bang, boom! his signature to the same
having the concluding tones, after the Every
of "Willow, tit-willow, tit
willow"
It often seems to the Casual that this is
sad, but, as he says, the patience of the
young woman with piano is SO really tit
willow meritorious that he loses his tra-la-
la impatience in admiration of it. What
tit-willow emphasis has come to her rattle |
te- bang fingers! What limberness to touch |
and soul of expression will some day wing |
themselves to that digitorial eloquence, and |
give it amethyst and ruby of music, with |
more than the color of the heavenly rain
bows, and more than the stately dignity of
the jasper column boom! They say that
in heaven there is no teaching of music,
the angel having ability, with the sprout-
ing of his wings, to tit-wiilow the harp.
rattle -te bang the celestial organ and twang
The stringed instruments of various kinds
-tum-te-tum and tra-la-la. Well, the Cas-
1al hopes so. While the patience of the
bird of that expectation is
developed, SO that she never
ceases to tum- te tum her wings and hi
liddle -diddle her voice and willow, tit-wiI-
ow that one of her heels which persis-
emily beats time and occasionally expresses
/. rattle-te- bang article of delicate profanity,
t is by heavensi SO exhaustive to the listen |
r that he appeals passionately to all the gods
f Olympus for relief and winds up with a
orient of rattle-te bang, boom! that wouldn't
'e safe to willow, tit-willow into hese deco
Gus columns.